Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Value of trees estimated at Rs 3.82 crore The socio-economic survey on the Posco project has identified around 3000 households and 1493 betel vines in six affected villages of the project site.
BHUBANESWAR: Utkal Bharat, the fledgling regional party, today supported the Posco steel project at Paradip which is facing opposition from the local people and a few political parties. Notwithstanding the claim of rapid economic growth of the State by the BJD Government, president of Utkal Bharat Kharabela Swain said that …
No progress has been made on the project till date, says party State unit chief The MoU was signed five years ago Those agitaging against the project to observe today as black day BHUBANESWAR: With the signing of Memorandum of Understanding for the much-hyped proposed steel project by South Korean …
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today assured that a good package will be worked out for the affected people of the Posco project, proposed to be set up near Paradip in Orissa. He gave this assurance during a meeting with a delegation of United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco outfit, in …
BHUBANESWAR: The United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco organisation of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Badakujang gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, on Friday demanded that displaced persons living in transit camps be allowed to return to their villages during the survey work. Nearly 80 families from Patana, Dhinkia and Govindpur are living …
In a bid to inspire confidence among the people to be affected by the 12 million tonne steel project of Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said a
Almost after five years of fierce opposition by the local people, the state government officials were on Thursday allowed to carry out socio-economic survey work at the Posco steel project site at Kujang near Paradip in Orissa
The villagers of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, the two of the strongholds of anti-Posco movement in the Posco project site area, have strongly reacted to the decision of their leaders to allow socio-economic and horticulture survey for the project in their villages. These villagers had been stiffly resisting the survey work …
BHUBANESWAR: The direct talks between Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) has opened the way for the establishment of the 12million tonne capacity steel mill by the South Korean company Posco. The softening of stand by both the sides will no doubt ease tension in the …
Public protests against posco’s steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa turned violent on May 15 when police lathi- charged people sitting on dharna and fired rubber bullets at them. Over 100 persons were injured. The protesters had been blocking the road to the South Korean company’s steel plant site …
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will visit the three gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, where thousands of villagers oppose displacement and demand the shifting of the site of a proposed Posco steel plant. Mr. Patnaik agreed to the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti's demand that he visit the …
DilipBisoi The Orissa govern ment on Sunday claimed that it has convinced anti-Posco groups to agree to a social-economic survey of the site for Posco India's 12-million tonne steel project in Jagatsinghpurdistrict. Anti-Posco groups, however, still held that the demand to shift the project to another site was` non-negotiable'. "The …
Tension prevailed at the Posco project site on Thursday as a team of armed police officials entered Gobindpur village under the Dhinkia gram panchayat to arrest Abhaya Sahoo, the president of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS). As the news of police entry reached the nearby villages, the residents of adjoining …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Tension prevailed on Tuesday at the proposed Posco project site near port town Paradip as eight platoons of armed police conducted flag march apparently to create a fear psychosis among the local people ahead of the survey work at Dhinkia and Nuagoan panchayats. Dhinkia and Nuagaon are …
In a setback to the five-year long anti-Posco agitation, about 50 people of a village, hitherto known for their opposition, today supported the mega steel plant project and asked the authorities to take up survey work in their area, officials said.
